The best public college in America today, according to a statistical analysis by The Business Journals, is the University of Michigan. Rounding out the top five in TBJ's new rankings of public colleges are the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, and the University of California.

It was the kind of dig that made headlines. "Like Mrs. Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles," Carly Fiorina said at U.S. Rep. Steve King's Iowa Freedom Summit last month. "But flying and traveling is an activity; it's not an accomplishment."

This year's measles outbreak is probably due to someone who brought the disease from overseas, but it's spreading because of growing pockets of parents who decided not to have their children vaccinated, public officials told Congress.